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נֶ֫פֶשׁ ne·phesh

“soul” · 754 times in the Old Testament

Through the Bible

Genesis: 43 timesExodus: 17 timesLeviticus: 60 timesNumbers: 50 timesDeuteronomy: 35 timesJoshua: 16 timesJudges: 10 timesRuth: once1 Samuel: 34 times2 Samuel: 17 times1 Kings: 23 times2 Kings: 15 times1 Chronicles: 5 times2 Chronicles: 4 timesEzra: 0 timesNehemiah: 0 timesEsther: 6 timesJob: 35 timesPsalms: 144 timesProverbs: 56 timesEcclesiastes: 7 timesSong of Songs: 7 timesIsaiah: 34 timesJeremiah: 62 timesLamentations: 12 timesEzekiel: 42 timesDaniel: 0 timesHosea: 2 timesJoel: 0 timesAmos: 3 timesObadiah: 0 timesJonah: 5 timesMicah: 3 timesNahum: 0 timesHabakkuk: 3 timesZephaniah: 0 timesHaggai: onceZechariah: 2 timesMalachi: 0 timesMatthew: 16 timesMark: 8 timesLuke: 14 timesJohn: 10 timesActs: 15 timesRomans: 4 times1 Corinthians: once2 Corinthians: 2 timesGalatians: 0 timesEphesians: oncePhilippians: 2 timesColossians: once1 Thessalonians: 2 times2 Thessalonians: 0 times1 Timothy: 0 times2 Timothy: 0 timesTitus: 0 timesPhilemon: 0 timesHebrews: 6 timesJames: 2 times1 Peter: 6 times2 Peter: 2 times1 John: 2 times2 John: 0 times3 John: onceJude: onceRevelation: 7 timesLawHistoryWisdomProphetsGospelsLetters
  • “soul” 176
  • “life” 110
  • “lives” 32
  • “i” 24
  • “person” 21
  • other ways 391
  • psuchē, the Greek the New Testament uses for it 103

In the New Testament it continues as psuchē: Matthew 22:37 quotes Deuteronomy 6:5, and puts this word in Greek.

As a table, book by book
BookTimes
Genesis43
Exodus17
Leviticus60
Numbers50
Deuteronomy35
Joshua16
Judges10
Ruth1
1 Samuel34
2 Samuel17
1 Kings23
2 Kings15
1 Chronicles5
2 Chronicles4
Esther6
Job35
Psalms144
Proverbs56
Ecclesiastes7
Song of Songs7
Isaiah34
Jeremiah62
Lamentations12
Ezekiel42
Hosea2
Amos3
Jonah5
Micah3
Habakkuk3
Haggai1
Zechariah2
Matthew16
Mark8
Luke14
John10
Acts15
Romans4
1 Corinthians1
2 Corinthians2
Ephesians1
Philippians2
Colossians1
1 Thessalonians2
Hebrews6
James2
1 Peter6
2 Peter2
1 John2
3 John1
Jude1
Revelation7

How the BSB translates it

Each way the Berean Standard Bible puts it into English, and how often.

  1. soul176
  2. life110
  3. lives32
  4. i24
  5. person21
  6. Not translated: the English carries it without a word20
  7. you17
  8. me16
  9. himself13
  10. people13
  11. o my soul12
  12. yourselves12
  13. 165 other ways288
Its meanings, as STEP Bible divides them
  • soul 246
  • life 207
  • myself 130
  • person 96
  • appetite 47
  • animal 13
  • dead 13
  • neck 2

With a pronoun joined

Hebrew joins “me”, “you”, “him” and the like to the end of a word.

Where it occurs

Grouped by how it’s translated, then by book. Each reference opens the verse.

“soul” 176
  • Genesis 1

    • 34:3 And his soul was drawn to Dinah…
  • Leviticus 4

    • 17:11 …to make atonement for your souls upon the altar for…
    • 17:11 …blood that makes atonement for the soul
    • 26:11 …dwelling place among you and My soul will not despise you…
    • 26:30 …remains of your idols and My soul will despise you…
  • Deuteronomy 10

    • 4:29 …heart and with all your soul
    • 6:5 …heart and with all your soul and with all your…
    • 10:12 …heart and with all your soul
    • 11:13 …heart and with all your soul
    • 13:3 …heart and with all your soul
    • 26:16 …heart and with all your soul
    • 28:65 …eyes and a despairing soul
    • 30:2 …your heart and all your soul according to everything I…
    • 30:6 …heart and with all your soul so that you may…
    • 30:10 …heart and with all your soul
  • Joshua 2

    • 22:5 …heart and with all your soul
    • 23:14 …all your heart and soul that not one of…
  • 1 Samuel 4

    • 1:15 …I have poured out my soul before the LORD…
    • 18:1 …finished speaking with Saul the souls of Jonathan and David…
    • 23:20 …king come down whenever your soul desires and we will…
    • 30:6 …of stoning him because the soul of every man grieved…
  • 1 Kings 2

    • 2:4 …with all their heart and soul you will never fail…
    • 8:48 …all their heart and soul in the land of…
  • 2 Kings 3

    • 4:27 …Leave her alone for her soul is in deep distress…
    • 23:3 …his heart and all his soul and to carry out…
    • 23:25 …heart and with all his soul and with all his…
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 22:19 …Now set your heart and soul to seek the LORD…
  • 2 Chronicles 3

    • 6:38 …all their heart and soul in the land of…
    • 15:12 …all their heart and soul
    • 34:31 …his heart and all his soul and to carry out…
  • Job 13

    • 3:20 …life to the bitter of soul
    • 6:7 My soul refuses to touch them…
    • 7:11 …complain in the bitterness of my soul
    • 10:1 …speak in the bitterness of my soul
    • 21:25 …dies in the bitterness of his soul having never tasted prosperity…
    • 24:12 …the city men groan and the souls of the wounded cry…
    • 27:2 …Almighty who has embittered my soul
    • 30:16 …And now my soul is poured out within…
    • 30:25 …for those in trouble Has my soul not grieved for the…
    • 33:18 …to preserve his soul from the Pit and…
    • 33:20 …he detests his bread and his soul loathes his favorite food…
    • 33:28 …He redeemed my soul from going down to…
    • 33:30 …to bring back his soul from the Pit that…
  • Psalms 37

    • 6:3 My soul is deeply distressed How…
    • 6:4 …O LORD and deliver my soul save me because of…
    • 7:2 …or they will shred my soul like a lion and…
    • 11:5 …righteous and the wicked His soul hates the lover of…
    • 13:2 …long must I wrestle in my soul with sorrow in my…
    • 16:10 …You will not abandon my soul to Sheol nor will…
    • 19:7 …LORD is perfect reviving the soul the testimony of the…
    • 22:20 …Deliver my soul from the sword my…
    • 23:3 …He restores my soul He guides me in…
    • 24:4 …does not lift up his soul to an idol or…
    • 25:13 His soul will dwell in prosperity…
    • 25:20 …Guard my soul and deliver me let…
    • 26:9 …Do not take my soul away with sinners or…
    • 31:7 …have known the anguish of my soul
    • 31:9 …eyes fail from sorrow my soul and body as well…
    • 33:20 Our soul waits for the LORD…
    • 34:2 My soul boasts in the LORD…
    • 35:3 …against my pursuers say to my soul I am your salvation…
    • 35:7 …they dug a pit for my soul
    • 35:9 Then my soul will rejoice in the…
    • 35:12 …good to the bereavement of my soul
    • 35:17 …You look on Rescue my soul from their ravages my…
    • 42:1 …streams of water so my soul longs after You O…
    • 42:2 My soul thirsts for God the…
    • 42:4 …as I pour out my soul how I walked with…
    • 42:6 …O my God my soul despairs within me Therefore…
    • 44:25 …For our soul has sunk to the…
    • 49:8 …For the redemption of his soul is costly and never…
    • 49:18 …his lifetime he blesses his soul and men praise you…
    • 54:4 …Lord is the sustainer of my soul
    • 55:18 …He redeems my soul in peace from the…
    • 56:13 …For You have delivered my soul from death and my…
    • 57:1 …mercy for in You my soul takes refuge In the…
    • 57:4 My soul is among the lions…
    • 57:6 …net for my feet my soul was despondent They dug…
    • 62:1 …David In God alone my soul finds rest my salvation…
    • 63:1 …I seek You my soul thirsts for You My…

And 96 more, on the full page.

“life” 110
  • Genesis 4

    • 12:13 …on account of you my life will be spared…
    • 19:19 …great kindness by sparing my life But I cannot run…
    • 19:20 …not a small place Then my life will be saved…
    • 37:21 …Let us not take his life he said…
  • Exodus 4

    • 21:23 …then you must require a life for a life…
    • 21:23 …require a life for a life
    • 21:30 …instead he may redeem his life by paying the full…
    • 30:12 …the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted…
  • Leviticus 6

    • 17:11 …For the life of the flesh is…
    • 17:14 …For the life of all flesh is…
    • 17:14 …any living thing because the life of all flesh is…
    • 24:18 …animal must make restitution life for life…
    • 24:18 …make restitution life for life
    • 26:16 …your sight and drain your life You will sow your…
  • Numbers 1

    • 35:31 …to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who…
  • Deuteronomy 4

    • 12:23 …because the blood is the life and you must not…
    • 12:23 …you must not eat the life with the meat…
    • 19:21 …must show no pity life for life eye for…
    • 19:21 …show no pity life for life eye for eye tooth…
  • Judges 2

    • 9:17 …for you and risked his life to deliver you from…
    • 12:3 …save me I risked my life and crossed over to…
  • Ruth 1

    • 4:15 …He will renew your life and sustain you in…
  • 1 Samuel 12

    • 19:5 …He took his life in his hands when…
    • 19:11 …you do not run for your life tonight tomorrow you will…
    • 20:1 …he wants to take my life
    • 22:23 …for he who seeks your life is seeking mine as…
    • 23:15 …come out to take his life
    • 24:11 …me down to take my life
    • 25:29 …pursue you and seek your life then the life of…
    • 25:29 …and seek your life then the life of my lord will…
    • 26:21 …because today you considered my life precious I have played…
    • 26:24 …surely as I valued your life today so may the…
    • 26:24 …may the LORD value my life and rescue me from…
    • 28:21 …your voice I took my life in my hands and…
  • 2 Samuel 7

    • 1:9 …has seized me but my life still lingers…
    • 4:8 …your enemy who sought your life Today the LORD has…
    • 4:9 …lives who has redeemed my life from all distress…
    • 14:7 …put him to death for the life of the brother whom…
    • 14:14 …does not take away a life but He devises ways…
    • 16:11 …flesh and blood seeks my life How much more then…
    • 19:5 …servants who have saved your life and the lives of…
  • 1 Kings 13

    • 1:12 …your own life and the life of your son Solomon…
    • 1:29 …lives who has redeemed my life from all distress…
    • 17:21 …please let this boy’s life return to him…
    • 17:22 …Elijah and the child’s life returned to him and…
    • 19:2 …I have not made your life like the lives of…
    • 19:3 …afraid and ran for his life When he came to…
    • 19:4 …LORD he said Take my life for I am no…
    • 20:31 …Perhaps he will spare your life
    • 20:32 …hadad says Please spare my life And the king answered…
    • 20:39 …missing for any reason your life will be exchanged for…
    • 20:39 …will be exchanged for his life or you will weigh…
    • 20:42 …had devoted to destruction your life will be exchanged for…
    • 20:42 …will be exchanged for his life and your people for…
  • 2 Kings 2

    • 1:13 …him Man of God may my life and the lives of…
    • 1:14 …their men But now may my life be precious in your…
  • Esther 2

    • 7:3 …the king grant me my life as my petition and…
    • 7:7 …beg Queen Esther for his life for he realized that…
  • Job 6

    • 2:4 …owns in exchange for his life
    • 2:6 …but you must spare his life
    • 12:10 The life of every living thing…
    • 13:14 …at risk and take my life in my own hands…
    • 27:8 …when God takes away his life
    • 31:30 …sin by asking for his life with a curse…
  • Psalms 11

    • 31:13 …and plot to take my life
    • 35:4 …May those who seek my life be disgraced and put…
    • 38:12 …Those who seek my life lay snares those who…
    • 40:14 …May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded…
    • 49:15 …But God will redeem my life from Sheol for He…
    • 54:3 …and ruthless men seek my life men with no regard…
    • 63:9 …But those who seek my life to destroy it will…
    • 70:2 …May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded…
    • 71:10 …who lie in wait for my life conspire…
    • 86:14 …of ruthless men seeks my life they have no regard…
    • 119:109 …I constantly take my life in my hands yet…
  • Proverbs 5

    • 6:26 …preys upon your very life
    • 12:10 …A righteous man regards the life of his animal but…
    • 13:3 …guards his mouth protects his life but the one who…
    • 13:8 …may ransom a man’s life but a poor man…
    • 16:17 …guards his way protects his life

And 30 more, on the full page.

“lives” 32
  • Genesis 2

    • 1:20 …Let the waters teem with living creatures and let birds…
    • 19:17 …them said Run for your lives Do not look back…
  • Exodus 2

    • 30:15 …LORD to atone for your lives the rich shall not…
    • 30:16 …to make atonement for your lives
  • Joshua 2

    • 2:14 Our lives for your lives the…
    • 9:24 …So we greatly feared for our lives because of you and…
  • Judges 3

    • 5:18 …a people who risked their lives Naphtali too on the…
    • 18:25 …your family will lose your lives
    • 18:25 …your family will lose your lives
  • 1 Samuel 2

    • 22:22 …I myself am responsible for the lives of everyone in your…
    • 25:29 …He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like…
  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 19:5 …have saved your life and the lives of your sons and…
  • 2 Kings 2

    • 1:13 …God may my life and the lives of these fifty servants…
    • 7:7 …they had run for their lives
  • Psalms 2

    • 22:29 …those unable to preserve their lives
    • 72:13 …and needy and save the lives of the oppressed…
  • Proverbs 2

    • 1:19 …whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors…
    • 14:25 …A truthful witness saves lives but one who utters…
  • Jeremiah 10

    • 19:7 …of those who seek their lives and I will give…
    • 19:9 …their enemies who seek their lives
    • 21:7 …their enemies who seek their lives He will put them…
    • 34:20 …their enemies who seek their lives Their corpses will become…
    • 34:21 …their enemies who seek their lives to the army of…
    • 46:26 …of those who seek their lives of Nebuchadnezzar king of…
    • 48:6 …Flee Run for your lives Become like a juniper…
    • 49:37 …before those who seek their lives I will bring disaster…
    • 51:6 …Babylon Escape with your lives Do not be destroyed…
    • 51:45 …her My people Save your lives each of you from…
  • Lamentations 1

    • 2:19 …hands to Him for the lives of your children who…
  • Ezekiel 3

    • 17:17 …constructed to destroy many lives
    • 22:27 …shedding blood and destroying lives for dishonest gain…
    • 47:9 …there will be swarms of living creatures and a great…
“i” 24
  • Genesis 3

    • 27:4 …to eat so that I may bless you before…
    • 27:25 …son’s game so that I may bless you Jacob…
    • 49:6 May I never enter their council…
  • Job 2

    • 6:11 …is my future that I should be patient…
    • 7:15 so that I would prefer strangling and…
  • Psalms 6

    • 69:10 I wept and fasted but…
    • 94:17 …had been my helper I would soon have dwelt…
    • 119:129 …are Your testimonies therefore I obey them…
    • 119:167 I obey Your testimonies and…
    • 120:6 …Too long have I dwelt among those who…
    • 139:14 …Marvelous are Your works and I know this very well…
  • Song of Songs 5

    • 1:7 …Tell me O one I love where do you…
    • 3:1 …I sought the one I love I sought him…
    • 3:2 …will seek the one I love So I sought…
    • 3:3 …you seen the one I love…
    • 3:4 …I found the one I love I held him…
  • Isaiah 1

    • 1:14 I hate your New Moons…
  • Jeremiah 3

    • 4:19 …cannot be silent For I have heard the sound…
    • 6:8 …forewarned O Jerusalem or I will turn away from…
    • 13:17 …you do not listen I will weep in secret…
  • Ezekiel 3

    • 4:14 …Lord GOD I said I have never defiled myself…
    • 23:18 …and exposed her nakedness I turned away from her…
    • 23:18 …in disgust just as I had turned away from…
  • Micah 1

    • 7:1 …eat no early fig that I crave…
“person” 21
  • Genesis 1

    • 46:26 …sons numbered sixty six persons
  • Exodus 2

    • 12:19 …eats something leavened that person whether a foreigner or…
    • 16:16 …an omer for each person in your tent…
  • Leviticus 7

    • 7:20 …to the LORD that person must be cut off…
    • 7:21 …to the LORD that person must be cut off…
    • 7:27 …anyone eats blood that person must be cut off…
    • 17:15 …And any person whether native or foreigner…
    • 19:8 …to the LORD That person must be cut off…
    • 22:3 …to the LORD that person must be cut off…
    • 27:2 …LORD involving the value of persons
  • Numbers 9

    • 5:6 …sin against another that person is guilty…
    • 15:27 …Also if one person sins unintentionally he is…
    • 15:28 …LORD on behalf of the person who erred by sinning…
    • 15:30 But the person who sins defiantly whether…
    • 15:30 …blasphemes the LORD That person shall be cut off…
    • 19:13 …of the LORD That person must be cut off…
    • 31:19 …you who have killed a person or touched the dead…
    • 35:15 …that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there…
    • 35:30 …If anyone kills a person the murderer is to…
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 27:25 …to kill an innocent person And let all the…
  • Joshua 1

    • 20:9 …that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there…
Not translated: the English carries it without a word 20
“you” 17
  • Genesis 2

    • 27:19 …my game so that you may bless me…
    • 27:31 …son’s game so that you may bless me…
  • Deuteronomy 6

    • 12:15 …But whenever you want you may slaughter…
    • 12:20 …as He has promised and you crave meat and say…
    • 12:20 …may eat it whenever you want…
    • 12:21 …within your gates whenever you want…
    • 14:26 …the money on anything you desire cattle sheep wine…
    • 14:26 …strong drink or anything you wish You are to…
  • 1 Samuel 3

    • 2:16 …you may take whatever you want the servant would…
    • 20:4 …said to David Whatever you desire I will do…
    • 25:26 …as the LORD lives and you yourself live since the…
  • Job 1

    • 16:4 …speak like you if you were in my place…
  • Isaiah 2

    • 51:23 …your tormentors who told you Lie down so we…
    • 58:11 …you He will satisfy you in a sun scorched…
  • Jeremiah 3

    • 38:17 …the king of Babylon then you will live this city…
    • 38:20 …go well with you and you may live…
    • 42:20 …For you have deceived yourselves by…
“me” 16
  • Numbers 1

    • 23:10 …a fourth of Israel Let me die the death of…
  • Judges 1

    • 16:30 …Samson said Let me die with the Philistines…
  • Job 1

    • 19:2 …long will you torment me and crush me with…
  • Psalms 12

    • 3:2 …Many say of me God will not deliver…
    • 7:5 …pursue me and overtake me may he trample me…
    • 11:1 …then can you say to me Flee like a bird…
    • 17:13 …to their knees deliver me from the wicked by…
    • 41:4 …gracious to me heal me for I have sinned…
    • 59:3 …they lie in wait for me Fierce men conspire against…
    • 66:16 …what He has done for me
    • 86:13 …me You have delivered me from the depths of…
    • 88:14 …LORD do You reject me Why do You hide…
    • 109:20 …who speak evil against me
    • 119:175 Let me live to praise You…
    • 143:12 …Destroy all who afflict me for I am Your…
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 18:20 …have dug a pit for me Remember how I stood…
“people” 13
  • Genesis 3

    • 12:5 …and all the possessions and people they had acquired in…
    • 14:21 …to Abram Give me the people but take the goods…
    • 36:6 …and daughters and all the people of his household along…
  • Exodus 1

    • 12:4 …based on the number of people and apportion the lamb…
  • Numbers 3

    • 19:18 …tent all the furnishings and the people who were there He…
    • 31:40 …and people including a tribute to…
    • 31:46 …and people
  • Joshua 3

    • 10:30 …and Joshua put all the people to the sword leaving…
    • 10:32 …day He put all the people to the sword just…
    • 10:37 …its villages and all the people Joshua left no survivors…
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 52:29 …in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year people from Jerusalem…
  • Ezekiel 2

    • 13:18 …you ensnare the souls of My people but preserve your own…
    • 22:25 …its prey They devour the people seize the treasures and…
“himself” 13
  • Numbers 1

    • 30:2 …an oath to obligate himself by a pledge he…
  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 20:17 …David as he loved himself
  • Job 2

    • 14:22 …and mourns only for himself
    • 32:2 …against Job for justifying himself rather than God…
  • Proverbs 5

    • 6:32 …whoever does so destroys himself
    • 8:36 …to find me harms himself all who hate me…
    • 11:17 …A kind man benefits himself but a cruel man…
    • 15:32 …who ignores discipline despises himself but whoever heeds correction…
    • 19:8 …who acquires wisdom loves himself one who safeguards understanding…
  • Isaiah 2

    • 44:20 …and he cannot deliver himself or say Is not…
    • 58:5 …a man to deny himself to bow his head…
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 51:14 …of Hosts has sworn by Himself Surely I will fill…
  • Amos 1

    • 6:8 …Lord GOD has sworn by Himself the LORD the God…
“yourselves” 12
  • Leviticus 6

    • 11:43 …Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature…
    • 11:44 …You must not defile yourselves by any creature that…
    • 16:29 …month you shall humble yourselves and not do any…
    • 16:31 …that you may humble yourselves it is a permanent…
    • 23:27 …sacred assembly and humble yourselves and present a food…
    • 23:32 …and you shall humble yourselves From the evening of…
  • Numbers 1

    • 29:7 …and you shall humble yourselves you must not do…
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 4:9 …guard and diligently watch yourselves so that you do…
  • Joshua 1

    • 23:11 …Therefore watch yourselves carefully that you love…
  • Jeremiah 3

    • 17:21 …LORD says Take heed for yourselves do not carry a…
    • 37:9 …says Do not deceive yourselves by saying The Chaldeans…
    • 44:7 …such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from…
“o my soul” 12
  • Judges 1

    • 5:21 …River Kishon March on O my soul in strength…
  • Psalms 11

    • 42:5 …Why are you downcast O my soul Why the unease within…
    • 42:11 …Why are you downcast O my soul Why the unease within…
    • 43:5 …Why are you downcast O my soul Why the unease within…
    • 62:5 …Rest in God alone O my soul for my hope comes…
    • 103:1 …David Bless the LORD O my soul all that is within…
    • 103:2 …Bless the LORD O my soul and do not forget…
    • 103:22 …dominion Bless the LORD O my soul
    • 104:1 …Bless the LORD O my soul O LORD my God…
    • 104:35 …more Bless the LORD O my soul Hallelujah…
    • 116:7 …Return to your rest O my soul for the LORD has…
    • 146:1 …Hallelujah Praise the LORD O my soul
“heart” 11
  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 2:33 …your eyes to fail and your heart to grieve All your…
  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 3:21 …rule over all that your heart desires So David dismissed…
  • 1 Kings 1

    • 11:37 …reign over all that your heart desires and you will…
  • Psalms 1

    • 10:3 …boasts in the cravings of his heart he blesses the greedy…
  • Proverbs 1

    • 13:25 …A righteous man eats to his heart’s content but the stomach…
  • Ecclesiastes 1

    • 6:2 …that he lacks nothing his heart desires but God does…
  • Song of Songs 1

    • 5:6 …had turned and gone My heart sank at his departure…
  • Isaiah 1

    • 19:10 …workers will be sick at heart
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 15:1 …should stand before Me My heart would not go out…
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 25:6 …the land of Israel with a heart full of contempt…
  • Hosea 1

    • 4:8 …My people and set their hearts on iniquity…
“one” 8
  • Leviticus 5

    • 4:2 …to do as follows with one who sins unintentionally against…
    • 4:27 …And if one of the common people…
    • 7:18 …shall be an abomination and the one who eats of it…
    • 7:21 …If one touches anything unclean whether…
    • 7:25 …presented to the LORD the one who eats it must…
  • Numbers 2

    • 31:28 …who went into battle one out of every five…
    • 35:30 …the witnesses But no one is to be put…
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 24:7 …man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers…
“he” 6
  • Genesis 1

    • 17:14 …male is not circumcised he will be cut off…
  • Numbers 2

    • 15:31 He shall certainly be cut…
    • 19:20 …does not purify himself he will be cut off…
  • Judges 1

    • 10:16 …and served the LORD and He could no longer bear…
  • 1 Kings 1

    • 19:4 …broom tree and prayed that he might die I have…
  • Job 1

    • 33:22 He draws near to the…
“all” 6
  • Genesis 2

    • 46:18 …his daughter Leah sixteen in all
    • 46:22 …born to Jacob fourteen in all
  • Exodus 1

    • 1:5 …of Jacob numbered seventy in all including Joseph who was…
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 10:22 …down to Egypt seventy in all and now the LORD…
  • Jeremiah 2

    • 31:25 …weary soul and replenish all who are weak…
    • 52:30 …guard carried away Jews So in all people were taken away…
“someone” 6
  • Leviticus 5

    • 5:1 …If someone sins by failing to…
    • 5:4 …Or if someone swears thoughtlessly with his…
    • 5:15 …If someone acts unfaithfully and sins…
    • 5:17 …If someone sins and violates any…
    • 6:2 …If someone sins and acts unfaithfully…
  • Numbers 1

    • 35:11 …a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there…
“everyone” 6
  • Joshua 5

    • 10:28 …He devoted to destruction everyone in the city leaving…
    • 10:35 …Joshua devoted to destruction everyone in the city just…
    • 10:37 …to destruction Hebron and everyone in it…
    • 10:39 …and devoted to destruction everyone in the city leaving…
    • 11:11 …The Israelites put everyone in Hazor to the…
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 43:6 …children the king’s daughters and everyone whom Nebuzaradan captain of…
“creature” 5
  • Genesis 5

    • 2:19 …man called each living creature that was its name…
    • 9:10 …and with every living creature that was with you…
    • 9:12 …you and every living creature with you a covenant…
    • 9:15 …you and every living creature of every kind Never…
    • 9:16 …God and every living creature of every kind that…
“themselves” 5
  • Esther 3

    • 8:11 …to assemble and defend themselves to destroy kill and…
    • 9:16 …also assembled to defend themselves and rid themselves of…
    • 9:31 …them and had committed themselves and their descendants to…
  • Isaiah 1

    • 47:14 …up They cannot deliver themselves from the power of…
  • Hosea 1

    • 9:4 …defiled For their bread will be for themselves it will not enter…
“myself” 5
  • Job 1

    • 9:21 …I have no concern for myself I despise my own…
  • Psalms 1

    • 35:13 …on sackcloth I humbled myself with fasting but my…
  • Jeremiah 3

    • 5:9 …Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation…
    • 5:29 …Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation…
    • 9:9 …Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation…
“yourself” 5
  • Job 1

    • 18:4 …You who tear yourself in anger should the…
  • Proverbs 1

    • 22:25 …his ways and entangle yourself in a snare…
  • Isaiah 1

    • 58:10 …and if you give yourself to the hungry and…
  • Ezekiel 2

    • 3:19 …you will have saved yourself
    • 3:21 …you will have saved yourself
“them” 5
  • Psalms 4

    • 33:19 …to deliver them from death and keep…
    • 72:14 …He will redeem them from oppression and violence…
    • 78:50 …He did not spare them from death but delivered…
    • 106:15 …sent a wasting disease upon them
  • Isaiah 1

    • 3:9 …not conceal it Woe to them for they have brought…
“desire” 5
  • Proverbs 1

    • 13:2 …man enjoys good things but the desire of the faithless is…
  • Ecclesiastes 1

    • 6:9 …see than the wandering of desire This too is futile…
  • Song of Songs 1

    • 6:12 …Before I realized it my desire had set me among…
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 16:27 …I gave you over to the desire of those who hate…
  • Micah 1

    • 7:3 …powerful utters his evil desire they all conspire together…
“creatures” 4
  • Genesis 1

    • 1:24 …earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds…
  • Leviticus 3

    • 11:10 …all the teeming life and creatures in the water are…
    • 11:46 …animals birds all living creatures that move in the…
    • 11:46 …the water and all creatures that crawl along the…
Not matched to an English word 4
“anyone” 4
  • Leviticus 3

    • 2:1 …When anyone brings a grain offering…
    • 23:29 …If anyone does not humble himself…
    • 23:30 …from among his people anyone who does any work…
  • Numbers 1

    • 19:22 …touches will become unclean and anyone who touches it will…
“appetite” 4
  • Numbers 1

    • 11:6 …But now our appetite is gone there is…
  • Proverbs 1

    • 16:26 …A worker’s appetite works for him because…
  • Ecclesiastes 1

    • 6:7 …for his mouth yet his appetite is never satisfied…
  • Habakkuk 1

    • 2:5 …at rest He enlarges his appetite like Sheol and like…
“herself” 4
  • Numbers 4

    • 30:4 …which she has bound herself shall stand…
    • 30:5 …which she has bound herself shall stand The LORD…
    • 30:11 …which she has bound herself shall stand…
    • 30:13 …sworn pledge to deny herself
“she” 4
  • Numbers 3

    • 30:6 …rash promise by which she has bound herself…
    • 30:7 …or pledges by which she has bound herself shall…
    • 30:8 …or the rash promise she has made and the…
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 23:17 …been defiled by them she turned away in disgust…
“breath” 3
  • Genesis 2

    • 1:30 …earth everything that has the breath of life in it…
    • 35:18 …And with her last breath for she was dying…
  • Job 1

    • 41:21 His breath sets coals ablaze and…
“will” 3
  • Genesis 1

    • 23:8 …If you are willing for me to bury…
  • Psalms 2

    • 27:12 …not hand me over to the will of my foes for…
    • 41:2 …to give him over to the will of his foes…
“must be cut off” 3
  • Exodus 1

    • 12:15 …day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel…
  • Leviticus 1

    • 18:29 …any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people…
  • Numbers 1

    • 9:13 …to observe the Passover he must be cut off from his people because…
“body” 3
  • Leviticus 1

    • 21:11 …go near any dead body he must not defile…
  • Numbers 2

    • 6:6 …go near a dead body
    • 19:11 …Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for…
“we” 3
  • Numbers 1

    • 21:5 …no bread or water and we detest this wretched food…
  • Psalms 2

    • 123:4 We have endured much scorn…
    • 124:7 We have escaped like a…
“and” 3
  • Numbers 1

    • 31:35 and women who had not…
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 5:21 …the Hagrites camels sheep and 2,000 donkeys They also took…
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 18:4 …to Me both father and son are Mine The…
“ourselves” 3
  • Numbers 1

    • 31:50 …to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD…
  • Isaiah 1

    • 58:3 …Why have we humbled ourselves and You have not…
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 26:19 …bring great harm on ourselves
“mind” 3
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 11:18 …in your hearts and minds tie them as reminders…
  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 2:35 …is in My heart and mind And I will build…
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 28:9 …and with a willing mind for the LORD searches…
“as surely as you” 3
  • 1 Samuel 2

    • 1:26 …my lord said Hannah as surely as you live my lord I…
    • 17:55 …is this young man As surely as you live O king Abner…
  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 14:19 …this The woman answered As surely as you live my lord the…
“own life” 3
  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 18:13 …If I had jeopardized my own life and nothing is hidden…
  • 1 Kings 1

    • 1:12 …me advise you Save your own life and the life of…
  • Proverbs 1

    • 20:2 …whoever provokes him forfeits his own life
“as you yourself” 3
  • 2 Kings 3

    • 2:2 …as the LORD lives and as you yourself live I will not…
    • 2:4 …as the LORD lives and as you yourself live I will not…
    • 4:30 …as the LORD lives and as you yourself live I will not…
“they” 3
  • Job 1

    • 36:14 They die in their youth…
  • Psalms 1

    • 107:18 They loathed all food and…
  • Isaiah 1

    • 46:2 …to relieve the burden but they themselves go into captivity…
“his” 2
  • Genesis 1

    • 42:21 …our brother We saw his anguish when he pleaded…
  • Proverbs 1

    • 6:30 …he steals to satisfy his hunger…
“if anyone” 2
  • Leviticus 2

    • 7:20 But if anyone who is unclean eats…
    • 7:27 If anyone eats blood that person…
“against that person” 2
  • Leviticus 2

    • 17:10 …will set My face against that person and cut him off…
    • 20:6 …also set My face against that person and cut him off…
“dead” 2
  • Leviticus 1

    • 19:28 …cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks…
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 19:6 …great and strike him dead though he did not…
“corpse” 2
  • Leviticus 1

    • 22:4 …Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or by a man…
  • Numbers 1

    • 19:13 …who touches a human corpse and fails to purify…
“dead body” 2
  • Numbers 2

    • 5:2 …anyone who is defiled by a dead body
    • 6:11 …being in the presence of the dead body On that day he…
“because of a dead body” 2
  • Numbers 2

    • 9:7 …Moses We are unclean because of a dead body but why should we…
    • 9:10 …your descendants is unclean because of a dead body or is away on…
“us” 2
  • Joshua 1

    • 2:13 …that you will deliver us from death…
  • Psalms 1

    • 124:4 …torrent would have overwhelmed us
“as himself” 2
  • 1 Samuel 2

    • 18:1 …and Jonathan loved him as himself
    • 18:3 …because he loved him as himself
“as you” 2
  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 20:3 …as the LORD lives and as you yourself live there is…
  • 2 Kings 1

    • 2:6 …as the LORD lives and as you yourself live I will…
“who risked their lives” 2
  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 23:17 …blood of the men who risked their lives So he refused to…
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 11:19 …blood of these men who risked their lives Because they had brought…
“death” 2
  • 1 Kings 1

    • 3:11 …wealth for yourself or death for your enemies but…
  • 2 Chronicles 1

    • 1:11 …honor for yourself or death for your enemies and…
“life as well” 2
  • 1 Kings 2

    • 19:10 …and they are seeking my life as well
    • 19:14 …and they are seeking my life as well
“own” 2
  • Job 1

    • 10:1 …I loathe my own life I will express…
  • Proverbs 1

    • 14:10 …The heart knows its own bitterness and no stranger…
“last breath” 2
  • Job 1

    • 11:20 …them they will hope for their last breath
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 15:9 …faint she will breathe her last breath Her sun will set…
“my” 2
  • Job 1

    • 16:4 …you if you were in my place I could heap…
  • Lamentations 1

    • 3:58 …You defend my cause O Lord You…
“neck” 2
  • Psalms 2

    • 69:1 …waters are up to my neck
    • 105:18 …with shackles and placed his neck in irons…
“throat” 2
  • Isaiah 1

    • 5:14 …Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its…
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 4:10 …a sword is at our throats
“those” 2
  • Ezekiel 2

    • 13:19 …listen you have killed those who should not have…
    • 13:19 …have died and spared those who should not have…
“only themselves” 2
  • Ezekiel 2

    • 14:14 …their righteousness could deliver only themselves declares the Lord GOD…
    • 14:20 …Their righteousness could deliver only themselves
“thing” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 1:21 …creatures and every living thing that moves with which…
“being” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 2:7 …man became a living being
“lifeblood” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 9:4 …must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it…
“lifeblood is shed” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 9:5 …beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed I will demand an…
“who takes the life” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 9:5 …an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man…
“yet my life” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 32:30 …God face to face and yet my life was spared…
“longs for” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 34:8 …them My son Shechem longs for your daughter Please give…
“whose life” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 44:30 …and if my father whose life is wrapped up in…
“boy’s life” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 44:30 …life is wrapped up in the boy’s life
“number” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 46:15 …daughter Dinah The total number of sons and daughters…
“jacob’s” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 46:26 …descendants besides the wives of Jacob’s sons numbered sixty six…
“members” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 46:27 …to Joseph in Egypt the members of Jacob’s family who…
“descendants” 1
  • Exodus 1

    • 1:5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy…
“kill you” 1
  • Exodus 1

    • 4:19 …the men who sought to kill you are dead…
“if a person” 1
  • Leviticus 1

    • 5:2 …Or if a person touches anything unclean whether…
“none” 1
  • Leviticus 1

    • 17:12 …say to the Israelites None of you may eat…
“whoever” 1
  • Leviticus 1

    • 20:6 Whoever turns to mediums or…
“dead person” 1
  • Leviticus 1

    • 21:1 …not to defile himself for a dead person among his people…
“man” 1
  • Leviticus 1

    • 22:6 the man who touches any of…
“slave” 1
  • Leviticus 1

    • 22:11 …if a priest buys a slave with his own money…
“anyone else” 1
  • Leviticus 1

    • 24:17 …man takes the life of anyone else he must surely be…
“for” 1
  • Leviticus 1

    • 24:18 …must make restitution life for life…
“despise” 1
  • Leviticus 1

    • 26:15 …you reject My statutes despise My ordinances and neglect…
“abhorred” 1
  • Leviticus 1

    • 26:43 …they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes…
“due to a dead body” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 9:6 …men who were unclean due to a dead body so they could not…
“cost of their own lives” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 16:38 …of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives hammer them into sheets…
“grew impatient” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 21:4 …Edom But the people grew impatient on the journey…
“pledges to fulfill” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 30:9 …widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her…
“put herself” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 30:10 …made a vow or put herself under an obligation with…
“careful” 1
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 4:15 …the fire at Horeb be careful
“earnestness” 1
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 18:6 …and comes in all earnestness to the place the…
“kills him” 1
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 19:11 …in wait attacks him and kills him and then flees to…
“wherever she wishes” 1
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 21:14 …to let her go wherever she wishes But you must not…
“murders him” 1
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 22:26 …man attacks his neighbor and murders him
“your” 1
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 23:24 …vineyard you may eat your fill of grapes but…
“taking one’s livelihood” 1
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 24:6 …because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security…
“another” 1
  • Joshua 1

    • 20:3 …that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may…
“until he” 1
  • Judges 1

    • 16:16 …her words and pleaded until he was sick to death…
“angry” 1
  • Judges 1

    • 18:25 …voice against us or angry men will attack you…
“bitter distress” 1
  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 1:10 In her bitter distress Hannah prayed to the…
“knit together” 1
  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 18:1 …of Jonathan and David were knit together and Jonathan loved him…
“discontented” 1
  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 22:2 …were distressed or indebted or discontented rallied around him and…
“mine as well” 1
  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 22:23 …your life is seeking mine as well You will be safe…
“get me killed” 1
  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 28:9 …you set a trap to get me killed
“who are despised” 1
  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 5:8 …the lame and blind who are despised by David That is…
“as your soul” 1
  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 11:11 …surely as you live and as your soul lives I will not…
“as fierce” 1
  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 17:8 …They are mighty men and as fierce as a wild bear…
“daughters” 1
  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 19:5 …lives of your sons and daughters of your wives and…
“wives” 1
  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 19:5 …your sons and daughters of your wives and of your concubines…
“expense of his life” 1
  • 1 Kings 1

    • 2:23 …not made this request at the expense of his life
“like the lives” 1
  • 1 Kings 1

    • 19:2 …not made your life like the lives of those you killed…
“commanders wish to make me king” 1
  • 2 Kings 1

    • 9:15 …So Jehu said If you commanders wish to make me king then do not let…
“forfeit his life” 1
  • 2 Kings 1

    • 10:24 …your hands to escape he will forfeit his life for theirs…
“theirs” 1
  • 2 Kings 1

    • 10:24 …forfeit his life for theirs
“vows” 1
  • 2 Kings 1

    • 12:4 …census money the money from vows and the money brought…
“risk of their lives” 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 11:19 …they had brought it at the risk of their lives David refused to drink…
“because you are” 1
  • Esther 1

    • 4:13 …Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace…
“what he” 1
  • Job 1

    • 23:13 …oppose Him He does what He desires…
“broken the spirit” 1
  • Job 1

    • 31:39 …its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants…
“mortal” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 17:9 …wicked who assail me from my mortal enemies who surround me…
“up my soul” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 25:1 …O LORD I lift up my soul
“pulled me” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 30:3 …O LORD You pulled me up from Sheol You…
“just what we wanted” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 35:25 …in their hearts Aha just what we wanted Let them not say…
“take my life” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 56:6 …steps while they wait to take my life
“our” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 66:9 …He preserves our lives and keeps our…
“along with my soul” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 71:23 …will shout for joy along with my soul which You have redeemed…
“craved” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 78:18 …by demanding the food they craved
“servant” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 86:4 …Bring joy to Your servant for to You O…
“righteous” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 94:21 …They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent…
“as he pleased” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 105:22 …to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders…
“courage” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 107:26 …sunk to the depths their courage melted in their anguish…
“would have swept us away” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 124:5 …then the raging waters would have swept us away
“soul defenseless” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 141:8 …refuge do not leave my soul defenseless
“own lives” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 1:18 …own blood they ambush their own lives
“him” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 6:16 …seven that are detestable to Him
“cost him his life” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 7:23 …snare not knowing it will cost him his life
“LORD” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 10:3 The LORD does not let the…
“slacker” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 13:4 The slacker craves yet has nothing…
“zeal” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 19:2 …Even zeal is no good without…
“party” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 19:18 …is hope do not be party to his death…
“who rob them” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 22:23 …case and will plunder those who rob them
“great appetite” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 23:2 …throat if you possess a great appetite
“inwardly” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 23:7 …he is keeping track inwardly counting the cost Eat…
“bloodguilt” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 28:17 …A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the…
“greedy man” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 28:25 A greedy man stirs up strife but…
“own soul” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 29:24 …to a thief hates his own soul he receives the oath…
“if he” 1
  • Ecclesiastes 1

    • 6:3 …how long he lives if he is unsatisfied with his…
“perfume” 1
  • Isaiah 1

    • 3:20 …ankle chains and sashes their perfume bottles and charms…
“both soul” 1
  • Isaiah 1

    • 10:18 …its forests and orchards both soul and body it will…
“still hungry” 1
  • Isaiah 1

    • 29:8 …is eating then awakens still hungry as when a thirsty…
“faint” 1
  • Isaiah 1

    • 29:8 …is drinking then awakens faint and parched So will…
“leaves the hungry” 1
  • Isaiah 1

    • 32:6 …falsely about the LORD he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the…
“delivered me” 1
  • Isaiah 1

    • 38:17 …anguish but Your love has delivered me from the pit of…
“whom my soul” 1
  • Isaiah 1

    • 42:1 …uphold My Chosen One in whom My soul delights I will put…
“him who” 1
  • Isaiah 1

    • 49:7 …Holy One of Israel to Him who was despised and abhorred…
“like ravenous dogs” 1
  • Isaiah 1

    • 56:11 Like ravenous dogs they are never satisfied…
“abominations” 1
  • Isaiah 1

    • 66:3 …own ways and delighted in their abominations
“her” 1
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 2:24 …wind in the heat of her desire Who can restrain…
“blood” 1
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 2:34 …your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor…
“shown herself” 1
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 3:11 …to me Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful…
“do you” 1
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 14:19 …You rejected Judah completely Do You despise Zion Why have…
“go wherever they wanted” 1
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 34:16 …had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted and you have again…
“people were taken away” 1
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 52:30 …Jews So in all people were taken away
“keep themselves alive” 1
  • Lamentations 1

    • 1:11 …their treasures for food to keep themselves alive Look O LORD and…
“alive” 1
  • Lamentations 1

    • 1:19 …food to keep themselves alive
“as their lives” 1
  • Lamentations 1

    • 2:12 …streets of the city as their lives fade away in the…
“risk of our lives” 1
  • Lamentations 1

    • 5:9 …We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword…
“appetites” 1
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 7:19 …LORD They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs…
“because you” 1
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 16:5 …into the open field because you were despised on the…
“whom” 1
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 23:22 …lovers against you those from whom you turned away in…
“turned away” 1
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 23:28 …you hate from whom you turned away in disgust…
“slaves” 1
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 27:13 …your merchants They exchanged slaves and bronze utensils for…
“utter contempt” 1
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 36:5 …possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt so that its pastureland…
“as my life” 1
  • Jonah 1

    • 2:7 As my life was fading away I…
“contact with a corpse” 1
  • Haggai 1

    • 2:13 …one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these…

In our notes

The Hebrew and Greek words, their glosses and grammar: STEP Bible (CC BY 4.0). The English: the Berean Standard Bible, which also gives which English words render which. Counts are ours.